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The Articles
The Constitutional Convention
The Constitution and its Framers
Amendments
Grab Bag
100
These are the three branches of government all states had under their state constitutions.
What is legislative, executive and judicial?
100
This was the city where the Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
100
This was the main issue of the 3/5th Compromise.
What is counting slaves for states' representation and taxation?
100
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech and other "Civil Liberties."
What is the 1st?
100
This person was president during the majority of the 1980s
Who is Ronald Reagan?
200
This is the idea that mothers were the ideal teachers of civic virtue.
What is republican motherhood?
200
This was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention.
What is to form a new government?
200
This is the name of the system that tries to protect citizens from one branch of government becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
200
This amendment protects the rights of the States to make laws that are not denied to them nor given to the national government.
What is the 10th?
200
This was the last formally declared war in which the U.S. participated.
What is WWII?
300
this was one weakness of the Articles of Confederation that Shays' Rebellion exposed.
What is the inability to enforce laws?
300
This plan for states' representation favored densely populated states.
What is the Virginia plan?
300
This man signed the Constitution even though he wanted to include a Bill of Rights.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
This is the amendment, created in the 1860s, that outlined citizenship, due process and equal protection.
What is the 14th?
300
This president was born in Omaha.
Who is Gerald Ford?
400
This was one weakness of the Articles of Confederation that resulted in little or no money for the national government.
What is the inability to tax?
400
This plan, proposed by William Paterson, argued for a unicameral congress and equal state representation.
What is the New Jersey plan?
400
This was the name of the group of people who opposed ratifying the Constitution.
What is Antifederalist?
400
This guarantees the right to a fair and speedy trial.
What is the sixth?
400
This president wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Lincoln?
500
This created a system for orderly settlement of the West and the creation of new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
This was the name of the state the Great compromise was also named after.
What is Connecticut?
500
This man was a famous supporter of Federalism and often called "the Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
500
This amendment keeps us from being cruelly or unusually punished.
What is the 8th Amendment
500
This was the conflict during which the Star Spangled Banner written.
What is the War of 1812?